Most common Lead-Acid batteries consist of only a few basic components; an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte. What is often not mentioned is the strategy used to keep these components from touching - the Separator.
What is a battery separator?
A battery separator is simply a membrane that is positioned between the positively charged anode and the negatively charged cathode.
The material of the separator acts as a catalyst that increases the movement of ions from one electrode to the other. Since the membrane controls the number of ions that move between terminals, it also plays a significant role in charging, discharging and overall quality of the battery.
The challenge is consistency
Since the separator plays such a large part in the functioning of a lead-acid battery, manufacturers pay quite a bit of attention to making sure the separator is the of the right size, thickness, texture and consistency.
The separator itself doesn't make this job much easier - it is often delicate and can easily be damaged by calipers or other quality assurance tools.
The solution is to use Mate Gauge lasers
The Mate Gauge MGX - is perfectly suited to collecting thickness, measurement and texture data from both sides of a sample - quickly and easily.
In just a few seconds an accurate reading of several Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) can be taken:
- KPI-1: Major Rib Thickness
- KPI-2: Backweb Thickness
- KPI-3: Shoulder Width (L/R)
- KPI-4: Full Sample Width
The only fully automatic solution to the hands-free measurement of battery separators
All of our non-contact laser thickness measurement gauges come preloaded with several types of apps that simplify the control, function and repeatability of the gauge.
Our newly developed "Separator Measurement App" allows for:
- calibration and measuring strategies are pre-built within the controls and ready to work
- quickly collect everything you need with just the click of a button
- compare historical averages at a glance
- backward compatible to older MGs
- significantly quicker and more accurate than attempting to manually measure just one rib
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